About the Author

Bernd Schaefer specializes in International Cold War History and works on a book about East Asian communism and American-Soviet rivalry in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Senior Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) and an Associate of the PHP. He worked extensively in the field of GDR history and its post-communist appraisal, as well as on the State Security Service (Stasi) and the role of churches in socialist systems. He has been a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and has lectured at universities in the United States, Europe, China, Vietnam, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Halle in Germany (1998), a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1991) where he was a John J. McCloy Scholar, and a M.A. from the University of Tuebingen in Germany (1988).

Bernd Schaefer can be reached at bernd.schaefer (a) wilsoncenter.org.